Senior Group FP&A Analyst

QinetiQ; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join QinetiQ as a Senior Group FP&A Analyst in Farnborough, providing essential financial analysis and reporting. This full-time role requires expertise in budgeting and forecasting, with a focus on collaboration across sectors. Qualified accountants looking for a challenging and rewarding work environment will find this an exciting opportunity to make an impact.

Benefits

Health Cash Plan

Private Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Employee discount portal

Holiday Trading

Support for Armed Forces community

Payroll Giving and Volunteering

Qualifications

• Strong accounting experience with exposure to forecasting, budgeting, and long-term planning.
• Advanced Excel skills and financial modelling expertise.
• Experience with Oracle Hyperion or EPM.

Responsibilities

• Own the Group’s monthly LBE process and ensure timely submissions.
• Assist with monthly analysis reports on key variances and insights.
• Support the annual budget process and strategic planning.

Skills

Financial analysis

Budgeting

Forecasting

Excel

Financial modelling

Oracle Hyperion

Education

Qualified accountant (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Expecting to qualify within the next 6 months

Job description

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As a Senior Group FP&A Analyst, you will have a role that is out of the ordinary. You will be responsible for providing financial analysis, insight and general support to the Group FP&A Function. You would work closely with all of QinetiQ’s Group sectors and functions to play an important role in monthly reporting and analysis, as well as financial planning and assisting with the generation of the published annual and interim accounts.

Day-to-day you will:

• Own the Group’s monthly LBE process (including any template updates), ensuring submissions are received on time, checked, loaded into Hyperion and accurately reported through the Operational Dashboard, alongside assisting the sectors/functions where necessary
• Assist the Group Head of FP&A with preparation of monthly analysis reports on key variances, business drivers and insights, risks and opportunities (with associated commentary)
• Support the Group Head of FP&A in delivering all financial aspects of the annual budget process and five-year strategic planning exercise (e.g. information gathering, submission co-ordination, consolidation checks)
• Completion of audit schedules and validation of company statements for the published annual and interim accounts
• Assist the Group Finance team and other key stakeholders (CFO, Strategy team, other group functions) with ad-hoc analysis, financial modelling and decision support activities as and when required

This role is full-time, 37 hours per week based out of our Farnborough office with adaptive working options.

Essential experience of the Senior Group FP&A Analyst:

• Strong level of accounting experience with particular exposure to forecasting, budgeting and long-term planning
• Advanced knowledge of excel and financial modelling capability
• Experience of Oracle Hyperion/EPM

Qualifications for the Senior Group FP&A Analyst:

• Qualified accountant (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or expecting to qualify within the next 6 months
• Adaptive and flexible working
• Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance, and Dental Insurance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee discount portal
• Holiday Trading
• Support for the Armed Forces community
• Payroll Giving and Volunteering

Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those which help the defence community.

Why Join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture.